Glenda Ritz thanks at a reception at Crooked Creek Elementary School where she was sworn in as Superintendent of Indiana Schools on Nov. 27

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A key Republican lawmaker said today he will not support making the superintendent of public instruction an appointed position before the next election.

Sen. Dennis Kruse, the Auburn Republican who is chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said that if a change is made, it should not happen until the four-year term of newly elected Democrat Glenda Ritz expires after the 2016 election.

"They won't get my vote unless they wait," Kruse said. "I would hope that a majority of the legislature would wait until after the term is over. I don't think it's right, at all, to end her term before the end ...